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Yeah, true, that's just a first draft. How do you like the skin colour (of the boyz?)

I think it's great, a nice deviation from the green tide everyone's used to

I'm personally gonna stick to my greens (mostly because I'm pretty bad at painting fleshtones), but to me, Orks will always be Orks, regardless of skin colour

How nice to see non-skinned orks. It is a bit weird but it works well!

 Matthew wrote:
I've done a few things today: The first thing was to make Green Stuff moulds for all the armour plates that came in the Trukk and Boyz kits. Now I can make some more out of Green Stuff, yay!

You could use Milliput for that purpose as well. It is better (can be made thinner, for better detail, with water) and a lot cheaper.

Sorry for not posting lately. I've ben busy with the Squiggoth, and, most importantly, I've joined this contest, in which I have posted these WIP's.


I'll let you figure out what this is, a Catachan strongman, a Himalayan Bison or an Ork in Power Armour? YOU decide!

Yeah, the contest ends in a month, so I'll have to speed the painting up. Should I prime him white or black, and should I do the skin my way or the green way?

Guys, for those who don't understand what these Orks do, if they haven't read the, you know, name of the waband, then let me demonstrate this perfect GIF: Imagine the Marine's an ork, the Bolter's a Slugga, and... Well, you probably get it.

A quick update from the painting challenge, two WIP photos. My concept is an Ork who killed a marine and looted his armour.


Here's the base, made from the cap of a spice can. It's moslty cork and sprue, plus a pile of dakka on top.

Guys, I'm back, on Pi day! Yesterday I picked up a Savage Orc Big Boss to convert to a Warboss with 'eavy Armour, a Big Choppa and a Kombi-Skorcha. This is how far I've come:

Metal gob, shoulder pad and stomach plates.

A quick update for today, I just bought a box of Stormboyz, they're all assembled and 3 are primed.



That is one of the many Boyz that will soon be done, I just need to paint their heads.


Pink straps anyone?

Finally, another update. I'm not sure if anyone actually follows this, but if anyone does, here comes an update.


I have finished a total of 4 Boyz now, with 6 more on the way.


I've settled for a Gray-Green colour scheme on their clothes, mostly because it looks pretty good.


That's the Nob, the most fun one to paint. I took the head from a box of Stormboyz.




That was my poor attempt at doing checkers. I'll just stick with one colour.


All 4 Boyz together.


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The last few weeks I've been participating in paradigm's painting challenge. Here's my finished model.
+++FINISHED MODEL ALERT+++

Paradigm, I've been following this since the beginning. I was one of the first few who wanted to do this. And now, my model stands finished.
I present to thee, DA LOOTA







When the forces of WAAAGH! Deff'ead reached the planet of Hythred, the Space Marines there did put up with a fight, until they faced their biggest fears: Orks. In Power Armour. After a Space Marine is killed, the Meks and Painboys steal their armour, and puts a 'volunteer' inside of it. Soon, he is a killing machine, who can dakka down everyone, at the same time as he's being protected by mighty armour.
It's been fun, Para. Thank you.

Great looking Orkz! WAAAGH!!

Well I'm following this

Nice work on the Boyz, just one question: why are the trims of the bases different colours? Is it a colour-code for their rank or class (like the BA do with their 'blue helmets for Devestators, yellow ones for Assault etc' approach)? Because that's actually a cool idea, which I might end up stealing

Also, Orks in Power Armour! A frightening thought indeed! His face is a bit bloody tho, it almost looks like he ate the Marine before stealing his kit

 Ezra Tyrius wrote:
Well I'm following this

Nice work on the Boyz, just one question: why are the trims of the bases different colours? Is it a colour-code for their rank or class (like the BA do with their 'blue helmets for Devestators, yellow ones for Assault etc' approach)? Because that's actually a cool idea, which I might end up stealing

Also, Orks in Power Armour! A frightening thought indeed! His face is a bit bloody tho, it almost looks like he ate the Marine before stealing his kit

Why thank you! The trims of their bases are colour-coded. A normal Boy/Loota/Stormboy/Grot/Flash Git have trims painted in the Fang, therefore they have blueish grey trims. All HQ's and Boss Nobs have trims in Evil Sunz Scarlet. This is just to let me quickly see the leader in a game.
Is the face too bloody? I actually want him to look pretty grimdark (because, y'know... 40k...)

Never thought of using the trim for colour-coding before, that's a great practical solution you've got here

As for the Ork in PA, personally, I think he's a little bit too bloody, it's like he was punched in the face a couple of times before he was sent into battle

But it's all up to you in the end, if you like bloody-faced Orks, go for it

Well Orks do get bored sometimes, and what do they do when they're bored? Punch eachother.


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By the way, I LOVE your Marines, they are just plain awesome.

Ah yes, the glorious pastime of the Orks; nothing like a good old-fashioned brawl

And thank you, be sure to check out my Orks as well! (shameless self-advertising, I know )

WAAAGH! I just acquired 6 WHFB Orcs, and I have set out to convert them to 40K. My plan is to buy a box of 40K and WHFB Boyz, and then... well, convert them_ i dunno. Anyways, here are some photos of my progress. I just need to strip them and I will be ready for painting.

I want these to be Shoota Boyz.

Huh, they\re made out of 2 kinds of plastic, weird.

Just some stripping left.

Guys, this is not Ork related, it's just... Painting related? I don't know, don't ask me.
Anyways, a friend gave me a ton of WHFB mini's, including the Orks and 17 Empire Riflemen!



I'm planning to paint them up in a historical scheme, either a Napoleonic (British, French or Prussian) or a Swedish 18th Century look. What do you guys think?



I'll need to strip and glue them a bit more, but still, does it sound good? I would love 17 Swedes with muskets, now I just need an Elk for King Carl XVI.



...sorry, just felt a bit... patriotic... there.

Thanks to Racticas, I've got a paint scheme.

Inspired by this legendary painting:

I have made a template just to show how I'm going to paint them:

Do they get to ally Santa Logan? or is that only for that other northern european country whose name I can't remember?

And yes, you need an elk, maybe something from whfb wood elves?

Santa Logan? You mean Grimnar?
And yes, I need an elk.

Who else in the grim darkness of the grimdark future looks like Santa?

True. How do you like the Orks?

I prefer the greener variety but they look good, can't say much since I only really liked the now nuclear wasteland fantasy version.

Nice work so far Matt, though those Orks without heads look a little... disturbing...
They remind me of a certain South Park episode

Yeah, I actually thought of making an entire army with no heads, and sculpting screaming mouths inside their necks. Seems like they'd be screaming "Hmmmph! Dkkwghhmp!!!!!"

First of all, everyone who reads this must check out this awesome thread. That guy inspired me to, well, start my Orks.

I've been a bit lazy regarding my Squiggoth, mostly because... well, it's easter, and seeing as I'm non-Christian, I've just been playing CS: GO and painting stuff. But, to the Squiggoth:

Here are two pictures that might e relevant (relephant? Ba-Dum-Tss!)



The first one is my original plan. If I cut of the ears, I'll have a lot more space to play with, and it'll look like less of an elephant.
The second one is just terrifying, but say I cut off both the trunk and the ears and sculpted a mouth, wouldn't it look... pretty sweet?

Some animal protection organisations may have a problem with it but the second one looks dangerous and killy.

I agree! That is kind off how I want my Squiggoth to look like.

Hre comes some updated WIP photos of the Squiggoth! I cut off his ears and trunk, and I'll try to sculpt something where the trunk once was.

Cool stuff, maybe rough up or round the trunk stump. Congrats on the more human skin for the orks. God knows I don't have the patience to layer different colours.